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Subject: RE: Perl bug?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:13:33 -0000
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On 30 January 2007 14:33, Andrew Louie wrote:

>>> Thanks for the info.  It's interesting to know.  What I still don't get,
>>> however, is the fact that the same statement does not waste memory on
>>> the x86 Linux Perl 5.8.5, but does on the x86 Cygwin Perl 5.8.7 and the
>>> x86_64 Linux 5.8.8.  So it has been introduced only in later versions?
>>> And why is it defended?  It doesn't seem to make sense, rather on the
>>> contrary.
> 
> This question is slightly offtopic, but I am interested in tracking
> how much memory my
> perl scripts use, can someone tell me how i could do that?
> 
> i tried:
> $strace script.pl
> strace: error creating process script.pl, (error 193)
> 


  strace isn't a shell, so it doesn't process shebang lines.  Try "strace perl
script.pl"



    cheers,
      DaveK
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